Lakeview Terrace

On Tuesday October 7, 2008, I went to see the movie Lakeview Terrace featuring Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson and Patrick Wilson.

The film is about a single father, Abel Turner, played by Jackson, who is a cop. He is very strict with his two children, and he is relatively Conservative in his views... One day, he sees a couple moving into the house beside his. From his glimpses, he sees an African American woman, Lisa Mattson, played by Washington, and an older companion whom he assumes is her husband. There's also an American mover, played by Wilson.

Later on in the film, as the older African-American gentleman is taking a phone call, Lisa and the mover (aka the husband) named Chris share an embrace. At this moment, he realizes that the new couple that moved here is a biracial couple.

The story revolves about Turner's conflicts with this couple. The couple does not do anything to provoke Turner, but he just takes offence to many things, and interprets things in different ways than other people do... And eventually, as conflicts escalate, they get resolved, but perhaps not how they should have been resolved.

The movie was enjoyable, although the spectators of this movie were not quiet at all...

The best line from the movie, in my opinion, was delivered by Jackson (Abel Turner), "You know how some friends are in a relationship, and you don't think they should be together, but you just don't tell that to their face?"

Both my friend and I jabbed each other on the arm because we both thought about how this phrase/saying/quote relates to our lives.